11 Facts About Samuel Bradford

Samuel Bradford was an English churchman and whig, bishop successively of Carlisle and Rochester.

Samuel Bradford was the son of William Bradford of London and was born in St Anne's, Blackfriars.

Samuel Bradford was educated at St Paul's School; and when the school was closed, owing to the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London, he attended Charterhouse School.

Samuel Bradford was admitted to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 1669, but left without a degree in consequence of religious scruples.

Samuel Bradford only took holy orders after the Glorious Revolution of 1689, and in the meantime acted as private tutor in the families of several country gentlemen.

Samuel Bradford soon received the lectureship of St Mary-le-Bow, and was tutor to the two grandsons of Archbishop John Tillotson, with whom he resided at Carlisle House, Lambeth.

Samuel Bradford was a frequent preacher before the corporation of London, and was a staunch whig.

In 1699 Samuel Bradford delivered the Boyle lecture in St Paul's Cathedral.

In 1724 Samuel Bradford resigned the mastership of Corpus Christi, and in 1725 became the first dean of the revived Order of the Bath.

Samuel Bradford died at the deanery of Westminster, and was buried in Westminster Abbey with a monument by Henry Cheere.

Samuel Bradford's wife, who survived him, was a daughter of Captain Ellis of Medbourne in Leicestershire, and bore him one son and two daughters.